BZ Prize for Local Journalism: Four women honored

 The BZ prizes for local journalism go to women this year. The jury for German-speaking Switzerland awarded a special prize of equal value to Barbara Achermann and Regula Tanner. Achermann was honored for her report "At home in frail Basel", which appeared in the Basler Zeitung. Using the example of seven individual fates, the author has succeeded in presenting the ageing of the Swiss population and the problem of care financing in an unsentimental and exemplary way, writes the jury. Tanner portrayed animals and their people in the Kleine Bund. The ambiguous and original portrait series is excellent and intelligent entertainment. Joëlle Favre from 24 Heures received the 1st prize for French-speaking Switzerland. Her reports on farmers and the homeless are authentic and sensitive, yet free of pathos and pity. The 2nd prize of the French-speaking jury went to Madeleine Joye. In La Liberté, she published an investigation into the takeover of public institutions in Fribourg by the Turkish community. Taking up this topic shows courage.
Further prizes in the photography category went to Bruno Voser, Michael Sieber, Christine Bärlocher, Pierre Albouy and Sylvain Savolainen. The jury assessed a total of 1841 images from 134 photographers. The best pictures will be published in a catalog and can be seen in the traveling exhibition "Swiss Press Photo 07" at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich.